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VERMONT THEATRE CO

VERMONT THEATRE CO

..one of the Burlington professional company's most compelling and entertaining productions to date”

Times Argus

The parallels between the Victorians and how we're treating immigration today, as if it's somehow these people fault..."

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Dickens — and Bartlett in this adaptation — focused on the brutality toward the poor by 19th C society."

Times Argus

OLIVER TWIST

An adaptation that really embraces 19th-century theatrical storytelling: theater as spectacle, theater as melodrama.

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Jacobs conducts the talented ensemble cast with taut precision, which makes Hollinger’s smart script sing.”

Seven Days

...feels amazingly authentic and is one of Vermont Stage's most even and consistent productions in recent memory."

Times Argus

A behind-the-scenes look at a string quartet: every scene, the stakes get higher."

OPUS

As a world-renowned string quartet prepares for their highest-profile performance, passions rise, personalities clash, and the artists confront the ephemeral nature of their life's work.

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As the story quickly moves from situation to situation, cleverly staged by Jason Jacobs on a minimalistic set ... (Sheinmel) begins to discover the meaning behind initially irrelevant occurrences and that life is full of the unexpected."

Theatre Is Easy

The antidote to the surfeit of soulless synthetic musical comedies on Broadway awaits you at The Club at La MaMa, in the form of Post Modern Living, a musical (kind of) by Richard Sheinmel, with songs by Clay Zambo, whose casual informality, honesty, and warmth are rivaled only by its dazzlingly high entertainment quotient."

NYTheatre.com

POST-MODERN LIVING (2010)/LOST IN STATEN ISLAND (2013)

by Richard Sheinmel
LaMama

I had the pleasure to direct two installments of Sheinmel's "Modern Living" play cycle, which began in 2006 at La MaMa. Much like Armistead Maupin's "Tales of The City", this series of related plays center on Mitch, a gay "downtown" New York performance artist (played by Sheinmel), as he writes plays about his life. The plays incorporate original songs and music by Clay Zambo. 

Gallery

A smart, funny, respectful treatment of Uncle Vanya...An impressive achievement."

Burlington Free Press 

Jacobs has staged the piece to take full advantage of the intimate playing space. We are caught up in the intensity of communication between the characters."

North Country Public Radio

...a delightful piece of theater - witty, touching, fun and sad, in that order."

Rutland Herald

VANYA VERMONT

adapted from Chekhov by
Kathryn Blume

I got a perspective on how Vermont is so different from anywhere else in America. I wanted to work on something that would speak specifically to this community in a really visceral, valid way.

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